Nursing Test # 4 Nus 111 2025
Questions and Answers
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
General appearance - ✔✔Good: Alert & Responsive
Poor: Listless, apathetic, and cachetic
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
General vitality - ✔✔Good:Endurance, energetic, sleeps well, vigorous
Poor: Easily fatigued, no energy, falls asleep easily, looks tired, apathetic, depressed
mood
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
Weight - ✔✔Good: Normal for height, age, body build
Poor: Overweight or underweight
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
Hair - ✔✔Good:Shiny, lustrous, firm, not easily plucked, healthy scalp
Poor:Dull and dry, brittle, loss of color, easily plucked, thin and sparse
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
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, Face - ✔✔Good: Uniform skin color, healthy appearance, not swollen
Poor: Dark skin over cheeks and under eyes, flaky skin, facial edema (moon face), pale
skin color
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
Eyes - ✔✔Good: Bright, clear, moist, no sores at corners of eyelids, membranes moist
and healthy pink color, no prominent blood vessel
Poor: Pale eye membranes, dry eyes (xerophthalmia), Bitot's spots, increased
vascularity, cornea soft (keratomalacia), small yellowish lumps around eyes
(xanthelasma), dull or scarred cornea
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
Lips - ✔✔Good: Good pink color, smooth, moist, not chapped or swollen
Poor: Swollen and puffy (cheilosis), angular lesion at corners of mouth or fissures of
scars (stomatitis)
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
Tongue - ✔✔Good: Deep, red surface papillae present
Poor: Smooth appearance, beefy red or magenta colored, swollen, hypertrophy or
atrophy
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
Teeth - ✔✔Good: Straight, no crowding, no cavities, no pain, bright, no discoloration,
well shaped jaw
Poor: Cavitites, mottled appearance (fluorosis), malpositioned, missing teeth
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
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Questions and Answers
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
General appearance - ✔✔Good: Alert & Responsive
Poor: Listless, apathetic, and cachetic
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
General vitality - ✔✔Good:Endurance, energetic, sleeps well, vigorous
Poor: Easily fatigued, no energy, falls asleep easily, looks tired, apathetic, depressed
mood
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
Weight - ✔✔Good: Normal for height, age, body build
Poor: Overweight or underweight
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
Hair - ✔✔Good:Shiny, lustrous, firm, not easily plucked, healthy scalp
Poor:Dull and dry, brittle, loss of color, easily plucked, thin and sparse
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
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, Face - ✔✔Good: Uniform skin color, healthy appearance, not swollen
Poor: Dark skin over cheeks and under eyes, flaky skin, facial edema (moon face), pale
skin color
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
Eyes - ✔✔Good: Bright, clear, moist, no sores at corners of eyelids, membranes moist
and healthy pink color, no prominent blood vessel
Poor: Pale eye membranes, dry eyes (xerophthalmia), Bitot's spots, increased
vascularity, cornea soft (keratomalacia), small yellowish lumps around eyes
(xanthelasma), dull or scarred cornea
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
Lips - ✔✔Good: Good pink color, smooth, moist, not chapped or swollen
Poor: Swollen and puffy (cheilosis), angular lesion at corners of mouth or fissures of
scars (stomatitis)
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
Tongue - ✔✔Good: Deep, red surface papillae present
Poor: Smooth appearance, beefy red or magenta colored, swollen, hypertrophy or
atrophy
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
Teeth - ✔✔Good: Straight, no crowding, no cavities, no pain, bright, no discoloration,
well shaped jaw
Poor: Cavitites, mottled appearance (fluorosis), malpositioned, missing teeth
Signs of Good & Poor nutritional status:
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